Description

As the most powerful combat aircraft of the Soviet Air Forces, the Tu-160 flies at 2,000 km/hr and can exceed the 2,000 mark with a mission-specific load. The T-160 can climb 60-70 meters per second and reach heights of up 15,000 meters. The bomber can be refueled during flight by IL-78 and ZMS-2 tanker aircraft. The Tu-160 can carry up to 12 Kh-55 long range missiles and Kh-15 short range missiles and is not equipped with artillery armament. The Tu-160 is equipped with a combined navigation and weapon-aiming system, radar for detecting targets on the ground and sea at long distances, an optical-electronic bombsight, an automatic terrain-following system, and active and passive radio-electronic warfare systems, as well as a probe-and-drogue airborne refueling system. It is equipped with K-36DM ejection seats. The cockpit instruments are the traditional electromechanical type. The aircraft is controlled with the aid of a central control column.